"His generosity of spirit and open-mindedness, his great sense of humor, his deep love for teaching and learning, his keen sense of fairness, and his uncanny ability to think critically and systematically are only a few of the many things that come to mind when I think of Professor Summers," she wrote in an e-mail.
To think this apparition has been visited by humanity is uncanny beyond words.
She found that "Pixar for adults" was the perfect way to think about sophisticated, lo-poly-count models that didn't try to cross the uncanny valley, yet with some affordances really looked good in the real world.
To one familiar with his novels and stories, these pages are uncanny: García Márquez reveals the real-life people and incidents underlying even his most fantastic fiction, until it becomes hard to think of anything he has left out.
I like to think of an octopus as a blobby, eight-fingered hand, but with a mind of its own and the uncanny ability to change color, size, shape, and texture.
Yet it's hard to think of a title more apropos for Cattelan, an artist who defies labels while consistently seeking out new ways to provoke, cause unease, and create with an elusive sense of the uncanny.
He has an uncanny feel for getting the big things right, whether it's the timing of his TV deal or pushing John Harris and I to think more ambitiously at critical moments.
A: I hope you don't mind if I refer to an interview I carried out around my previous book, Swallow, in which I discuss the importance of the uncanny to my work and to nonfiction generally: http://www.propellermag.com/Fall2011/Cappellofall11.html I think the uncanny is at the heart of literary nonfiction.
